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Jambalaya
Harvest's main dining room. The outdoor terrace can be a pleasant alternative. Photograph courtesy of Harvest Restaurant The landmark Harvest R estaurant, established in 1975 and reopened in 1998 by new management after a financial swoon, is at last in …
Issue: May-June 2002
A Student in Beijing
Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat toilets. Metal meal tins. White bureaucratic slips of paper with red stamps--all assaulted by dust from the Gobi desert and a coal-induced haze. Many Western students go into culture …
Football: Princeton 51, Harvard 48
Harvard Stadium was in twilight when Saturday’s triple-overtime tie-breaker came to its crushing end, on a scoring pass from Princeton quarterback Quinn Epperly to Roman Wilson. Sound familiar? At Princeton Stadium a year ago, a scoring pass from Epperly …
Cambridge 02138
Harvard continues to be an acute embarrassment to me, but unfortunately not to itself. It will take my beloved College 20 years to overcome the damage it has done in running Summers off. What were you thinking of, you at the FAS? That only you can define …
Issue: May-June 2006
“Fully Part of the Harvard Family”
The new First Generation Harvard Shared Interest Group (SIG) is “the natural outcome of Harvard’s very laudable HFAI [ Harvard Financial Aid Initiative ] program,” notes Kevin Jennings ’85, who founded the SIG and is launching an alumni-mentoring program …
Issue: September-October 2012
Sandeep Robert Datta and Venkatesh Murthy: Why is Smell Such a Mystery to Scientists?
WHY IS SMELL SUCH A MYSTERY TO SCIENTISTS? Neurobiologists Venkatesh Murthy and Sandeep Robert Datta discuss what scientists know about our sense of smell, and what big mysteries remain. Topics include smell loss from COVID-19, experimental …
The Burst of the South Sea Bubble
In the north lobby of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, beneath portraits of deans dating back to the school’s founding, glass cases adorned by glowing sky-blue signs capture the curiosity of passersby and disrupt the flow of foot traffic. …
Wanderers from Sirius
Dogs do figure mightily in Underdog, the fourth collection of poems by Katrina Roberts ’87. In “Cave Canem,” for example, a meditation on, and reimagining of, the volcanic denouement that doomed Pompeii, the narrator speaks of …my quiet urgings to the …
Issue: January-February 2012
Football: Harvard 56, Princeton 39
This was one for the books. On a perfect football Saturday at the Stadium, Harvard held a 42-16 lead in the second half and seemed to be cruising to its fifth win of the season. Then, within a span of 10 minutes, a furious Princeton rally cut the Crimson …
Lessons from Libya?
In the spring of 2007, this magazine published a brief news item observing that “Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the world’s preeminent corporate strategist, is advising the government of Libya on economic reform,” that the …
Issue: July-August 2011
Friends of Harvard Magazine
The Friends of Harvard Magazine group was established to demonstrate Harvard Magazine' s appreciation for donors who make an especially generous contribution of $100 or more. To recognize and strengthen that bond, Harvard Magazine holds special events …
Talk, Part I: On Service to Country
America is fighting two wars. Related issues arose twice during the formal Commencement-week activities. President Drew Faust, addressing her first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony on June 4, delivered a nuanced, historical analysis …
Issue: July-August 2008
An Argument for Music
The first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto ended, and Carnegie Hall erupted in applause. Joshua Bell, whose dazzling solos and severe good looks had fired the crowd, pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped it theatrically across his brow. …
Issue: July-August 2008
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
I love the way that patches of wild yellow-rayed goldfields slightly reflect the sunlight of the California coast. The stalks of these wildflowers can reach as high as my waist, and their deep green leaves shoot out from the entire length in fractals. …
The “Messy Experiment”
O n November 20, 1960, scientist Mary Ingraham Bunting unveiled her vision for the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. Newly appointed as Radcliffe’s president, she made her announcement just weeks after the country had elected John F. Kennedy ’40, …
Issue: May-June 2020